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CD Album Recommendations February 2013

Juno Recommends CD Albums

Juno Recommends CD Albums

CD Album Recommendations February 2013
7 Feb 2013
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Beglammered
Never There
Skwatch
Another Lonely City
Late Flowering Lust
Late Flowering Dub
We Are The Axis
One Minute's Silence
The Quiet Dignity (Of Unwitnessed Lives)
A Love From Outer Space (version 2)
Review: Ruled by Passion, Destroyed by Lust marks the fine debut of The Asphodells, Andrew Weatherall's latest collaboration with close friend and creative foil Timothy J Fairplay. Their compatibility shines through, taking their shared interests and inspirations and playfully tosses them together to create a stylish, coherent whole. The album displays its dark underbelly proudly, but there are more than enough shards of light to inspire those salivating after the bold melodies of Two Lone Swordsmen or the naive, child-like bagginess of Weatherall's Screamadelica era work. At times reminiscent of New Order and others cripplingly paranoia inducing, this ten track set concludes in sublime fashion with the duo's dreamy, cosmic disco-era cover of A.R. Kane's "A Love From Out Of Space"
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 in stock $13.15
2
Cat: EOD 219EP. Rel: 04 Feb 13
 
Electro
Matter
Travellax Acid
Zinking
Innsmouth
I Hear 3
Arrow
Return To Star Base Zero
Beyond The Corridors
The Color Out Of Space
Retcho
out of stock $11.31
3
Cat: KMCD 04. Rel: 04 Feb 13
 
Techno
303/303/303/606
303/303/303/303/606
202/303/303/303/606/606
202/202/303/303/606
303/303/303/303/707/808
303/303/303/303
303/303/303/303/808
303/303/303/303
out of stock $13.67
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Smokeys Illegitimate Report
The Countdown Has Begun
Auquabahn
Intensified Magnetron
Sea Snake
Flying Fish
The Mutant Gillmen
Unknown Journey IV
Nautilus
Vampire Island
Aqua Worm Hole
The Bubble Chamber
You Don't Know
Red Hills Of Lardossa
Review: Few electronic acts could easily sustain three expansive 'best of' compilations, but then Detroit techno-electro fusionists Drexciya weren't your average electronic artists. In the space of little more than 12 EPs and a handful of albums, released in a ten-year burst between 1992 and 2002, James Stinson and Gerald Donald did more to push electronic music forwards than many of their Motor City peers. This third retrospective in Clone's excellent Journey of the Deep Sea Dweller series expands on the first two volumes, swimming between atmospheric IDM ("Aqua Worm Hole", "Vampire Island"), balls-deep techno workouts ("Nautilus", "Intensified Magnetron") and shimmering future electro (the futuristic Kraftwerk vibes of "Aquabahn").
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out of stock $13.42
5
Cat: STILLMCD 08. Rel: 21 Jan 13
 
Deep House
Across The Room
Breathe
Clouds
Sandipper
All Over Me
This
Backseat Lover
Intersection
Mind Forest
Let Go
Breathe Jerome (Derradji remix)
Review: Motional Response marks the excellent (and long overdue) debut album from Canadian producer Basic Soul Unit which finds a welcome home on the Still Music imprint. In the works for some two years, the album follows an eminently impressive array of releases for the likes of Mathematics, Creme Organization, Dolly, Mule and most recently Nonplus and sees the Toronto based artist otherwise known as Stuart Li craft ten tracks of elaborate techno. Anyone with a firm grasp of the Basic Soul Unit style will know not to expect straight up 4/4 and this truth manifests itself in the opening track "Across The Room" which pairs delicate fluttering melodies with bass heavy broken rhythms and remains pleasantly surprising on the ear throughout.
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out of stock $13.93
6
Cat: ZENCD 129. Rel: 21 Jan 13
 
Broken Beat/Nu Jazz
Stay I'm Changed
She Sleeps
Straight & Arrow
Uncea
For Karme
Finally Some Shit / The Rain Stopped
Kenny Rolls One
Korben Dallas
Re Assimilate
Bells
Review: There's always been something a little loved-up about the scattergun, genre-bending productions of New York's Drew Lustman, AKA Falty DL. Yet previously, his desire to fuse cutting-edge rhythms with vintage rave references sometimes got in the way. Hardcourage, his first full-length for independent behemoths Ninja Tune, takes a more 'softly-softly' approach. Whereas his last full-length, 2011's You Stand Uncertain, was a kaleidoscopic invitation to start the dance, Hardcourage gently beckons you towards a loving embrace. While there are still plenty of skittish rhythms present, they're wrapped up in a warm orange glow - all serotonin-soaked chords, cascading melodies, bluesy vocal samples and near-Balearic compositions. In many ways it's a startling about-turn, but one that comes heartily recommended.
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out of stock $10.26
7
Cat: OMNICD 05. Rel: 21 Jan 13
 
Hip Hop/R&B
Soulville (intro)
Reason & Sanity
Brand New Thinking
Front Line Colors
Fellin Like Clay
Saigon Say No
Love Of Self
TV Star Joe
Re-Evaluate
Different Light
That's What It Is
Afro Pride Soldier
Boom Bap Dap
Revisionist (Walk On)
Reflection Time
War Baby Bloods
Keep Your Word
GI Resistance
Fort Bragg Revolution
Soul Transformation
Clean Home
I Am Mr Simple
Review: Former 4Hero producer Marc Mac is getting a dab hand at creating bespoke, mixtape-style albums that blend civil rights-era dialogue with fresh, jazz and soul-flecked hip-hop instrumentals. Following on from the excellent Extend The Knowledge and It's Right To Be Civil sets comes Message From Soulville, a set that focuses on the role black Americans played in the Vietnam War. It's another doozy, mixing luscious, string-laden jams, boom-bap beats and head nodding grooves with considered skits and pointed, sample-based commentary. There are some fantastic individual tracks amongst the 70-minute journey, including a near blissful re-tweak of "Walk On By" that's near anthemic in its execution.
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out of stock $6.30
8
Cat: PERMVAC 0893CD. Rel: 28 Jan 13
 
Disco/Nu-Disco
Depak Ine
Destiny (feat Pional)
El Oeste
Oro Y Sangre
Journeys (feat Ekhi)
Missing You
Last Land
Estiu
When The Past Was Present
HORSE
So Will Be Now (feat Pional)
Tragedial
Destiny (feat Pional - Bullion version)
Matilda's Dream (LP version)
Mai Mes
Last Land (Kenton Slash Demon remix)
Zanzibar (80 Tapemix)
I Want Tonite
Journeys (feat Ekhi - Bostro Pesopeo remix)
When The Past Was Present (Pachanga Boys Purple remix)
Review: A year after it first wowed critics, John Talabot's brilliant debut album Fin - an expansive exercise in woozy dark-pop, off-kilter dream house and inventive IDM - gets a deserved reissue. This time round, the album has been padded out using a mix of previously released remixes, unheard versions an unreleased bonus cuts. There are some real gems among the nine additional tracks, from Bullion's breezy, off-kilter pop take on "Destiny" and the shimmering electronica of "Tragedial", to a hitherto unheard 'album version' of Talabot's seminal breakthrough cut, "Matilda's Dream". The droning synth-pop of "I Want Tonight" also impresses, as do the skittering rhythms and bold synths of "Zanzibar (80tapemix)". In truth, it's all pretty hot.
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out of stock $8.94
9
Cat: WARPCD 225. Rel: 04 Feb 13
 
Indie/Alternative
Light Body Clock Starter
Timeaway
Armonica
Track 4
A Day's Pay For A Day's Work
Young Heart's
Amplified Ease
You Don't Need A Weatherman
Bed Music - North View
Hold Me Down
Review: Having made their name on Hyperdub with a peculiar but steadfastly atmospheric brand of maudlin electronica, Darkstar seemed to have cheered up no end for their Warp debut, News From Nowhere. A far warmer, dreamier set than debut album North, it bristles with woozy, kaleidoscopic chords, tropical melodies and intoxicating vocals. There are moments of shoegazing blissfulness - the James Blake-does-MDMA vibes of "Track 4" and the wonky, indie-electronica of "A Day's Pay For A Day's Work" (think Harry Nilsson or early Pink Floyd, with synthesizers) - as well as intricate forays into string-laden downtempo pop ("Young Hearts") and poppy melancholia (the dub-fuelled "You Don't Need A Weatherman").
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out of stock $11.04
10
Cat: C705 9802. Rel: 21 Jan 13
 
Broken Beat/Nu Jazz
It's All Over Your Body
Sword & Gun (feat Hindi Zahra)
Trouble
Vanguard
Come To My Door
Heaven On The Ground (feat Emily King)
Do You Feel
Make It Right
Bird Of Space
No Beginning No End
Tomorrow
Come To My Door (acoustic version)
Review: Former Brownswood staple and Gilles Peterson fave Jose James enjoyed something of a breakthrough in 2010, with an album that looked to Moodymann and Flying Lotus for inspiration. Here, he returns to his jazz roots with an album for Blue Note that pits his gorgeous baritone vocals against a musical mix that's as slick, warm and soulful as you'd expect. The 12 tracks flit between neo-soul, cosy jazz-funk, acoustic soul, hip-hop soul and trad jazz, with hissing beats, flowing pianos and shuffling grooves at every turn. James is a class act who rarely disappoints, and No Beginning No End should impress familiar fans and excited newcomers alike.
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out of stock $14.46
11
Cat: RTRAD 654CD. Rel: 14 Jan 13
 
Experimental/Electronic
Wave
Particle
Photon
Spectral Split
Quantum
out of stock $10.51
12
Cat: AR 027CD. Rel: 04 Feb 13
 
Broken Beat/Nu Jazz
Our World Our Style
Baby Gone
Ballroom Breakers
Tequila Man
En La Orilla Del Danuvio
Black Cat Jive
Do The Chicken Rag
Kali's Kiss
Or Ve Hoshech
An-Nil Al-Azraq
Theme From The Desert Thieves
Barna
out of stock $11.84
13
Cat: KCD 275. Rel: 28 Jan 13
 
Deep House
I Was A Seed That Became A Flower
A Second (feat Kai Martin)
Beautiful Searching (feat Marta Gazman - 2012 mix)
Love Like This (feat Sepsenahki)
Hanging On (feat Terrance Downs - 2012 mix)
Exquisite Taste Of Sorrow (interlude)
Truth Comes Shining Through (feat Kai Martin)
Heaven Is Right Here (feat AK - alternate)
In The Light Of Evening (interlude)
Awareness (feat Mia Tuttavilla - 2012 mix)
Menage A Trois
Where Do You Come From (feat Terrance Downs)
Come Back To Me (feat Kai Martin)
Fight The War (outro)
out of stock $10.46
14
Cat: MBE 100. Rel: 04 Feb 13
 
Techno
Grolzham
The Black Crow
The Falcon
The Fox
The Owl
The Snake
Cash
Funk That Groove
Summer Madness
Horny Tiger
The Airport Lounge
She Leaves
Review: Although often robust and wide-eyed, Marco Bailey's particular brand of techno-inspired electronic music owes as much to classic progressive house, ambient and modern tech-house as it does to Dave Clarke or Detroit futurism. This musical melting pot - born, we can only assume, from nearly two decades of music-making, gives High Volume, his latest full length, a vibrancy sometimes missing on previous exercises. There's much to admire, from the bongo-laden assault of "Summer Madness" and early Black Dog-ish "Grolzham", to the shuffling trip-hop sweetness of "The Airport Lounge" and classical sweep of "She Leaves".
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out of stock $13.67
15
Cat: CAK 77CD. Rel: 21 Jan 13
 
Disco/Nu-Disco
Harm In Change
Say That
So Many Details
Rose Quartz
Touch
Cola
Studies
High Living
Grown Up Calls
Cake
Day One
Never Matter
How's It Wrong
out of stock $12.61
16
Cat: PSY 054. Rel: 28 Jan 13
 
Experimental/Electronic
Substatntial Drift (feat Tlon)
Bienenkorb
Mamor (dedub)
Von Angesicht Zu Angescht
Kalypso
Kronen Dab
Unter Druck
Montreal > Dortmund (with Nuthre)
Monddiode
Serpentine
Nachtigal
Timbre
Review: It's ten years since Dortmund-based sound explorer Krill Minima (aka producer Martin Juhls) delivered his first full-length. In the decade since, he's proved to be a reliable source of warm, click-heavy, dub-flecked electronica (or, as he describes it, "exotic ambient"). Sekundeschla, his fourth album, continues this theme, offering dubbed-out tracks dripping with tumbling melodies, delay-laden fireside chords and the slightest hint of glitchy rhythm. Unlike much similarly-minded material, there's a huggable positivity about Juhls' productions. Even the most horizontal of tracks - such as the becalmed "Unter Druck" and "Kronen Dab" - seem to come from a happy place, far, far away. It's an impressive trait.
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out of stock $10.46
17
Cat: PLD 0332. Rel: 28 Jan 13
 
Deep House
Tale Of The Big City (intro)
Swing Mode
I Got You
Bring Me Up (feat All Dom)
Kids Play
Get It On (part 1)
What I Do
CompuRhythm
1983 (feat Hogni Egiltsson)
What U Love
Tale Of The Big City
Get It On (part 2)
I Should Be Sleeping
Over
Get Back
out of stock $14.72
18
Cat: K 7305LCD. Rel: 04 Feb 13
 
Balearic/Downtempo
Zur Guten Ambience
What If
Heatwave
Jayjay
Soda
Meixner
Stuttgart
In My Brain Prinz Eugen
Cavallo
Bonjour
Review: It's been a while since we last heard from Tosca (three years, in fact), and even longer since they released a record that pricked the consciousness of downtempo dub connoisseurs. Thankfully, Odeon is something of an unlikely return to form. Opening with the atmospheric ambience of "Zur Guten Ambience", Richard Dorfmeister and Rupert Huber move through their entire repertoire of spine-tingling, horizontal sounds. Along the way, they touch on folksy iciness ("What If"), alien dub-house ("Heatwave"), Roxy Music-ish art-pop ("Jayjay"), bluesy dub ("Mexiner") and, most notably at all, post-punk funk-pop ("In My Brain Prinz Eugen"). It is, of course, pretty smooth, but that's all part of their stoned charm.
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out of stock $13.42
19
Cat: SCREAL 001CD. Rel: 21 Jan 13
 
Balearic/Downtempo
Her & The Sea
Broken Homes
Like A Ghost In Your Life
A Long Way To Fall
I Take Comfort In Your Ignorance
A Forgotten Birthday
The Weight Of Darkening Skies
Borrowed Time
Ten Years
A Ritual In Time & Death
Review: There's something strangely excitable about the material showcased on this latest full-length offering from German electronics boffin Ulrich Schnauss. Rather than being downbeat but beautiful, full of shoegazing chords and mouse-quiet melodies, much of the material is bold, bubbly and surprisingly rhythmic - like he's necked a load of happy pills and let all his inhibitions drift away. Of course, the glistening electronics still shimmer, but the melodies are bolder and there's a lightness to proceedings that belies his snowy, icy past. "A Forgotten Birthday", for example, is near rush inducing in its breathless positivity. It's certainly a positive change in direction, and one that should win him plenty of new admirers.
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out of stock $13.15
20
Cat: BFKCD 028. Rel: 21 Jan 13
 
Experimental/Electronic
Back From Mystery City (Subterranean version)
Beautiful Addiction (Self Destruction version)
Witches Crew (Mater Suspiriorum version)
Blood Supreme (Prague Symphony orchestra version)
A Darker Shade Of Noir (Bad Mojo version)
Surrender To The Shadows (Orchestra From Nowhere version)
Permanent Midnight (Noir Swing version)
The Weight Of Darkness (Nocturno version)
Miss Morgue (Deep Red version)
Vampire State Building (White Light-White Heat-White Noise version)
Review: Having previously dabbled with horror soundtracks on their acclaimed albums Permanent Midnight and Back From Mystery City, Italian duo Blakula have decided to go the whole hog and release an album containing library music-inspired horror reworks of previously-released cuts. It's a simple idea, executed brilliantly. There's a sinister Hammer feel to the jagged strings and fuzzy atmospherics of "Blood Supreme" (re-recorded with the Prague Symphony Orchestra) and "A Darker Shade of Noir (Bad Mojo Version)", while the borderline psychedelic "The Weight of Darkness (Nocturno Version)" and chugging, church organ-laden "Miss Morgue (Deep Red Version)" bristle with ghoulish, nightmarish intent.
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out of stock $9.73
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